Memorial services for slain MIT officer Sean Collier this week

One day after Tuesday’s private funeral in Stoneham for slain MIT Police officer Sean Collier, MIT will hold a memorial service Wednesday on its Cambridge campus. Vice president Joe Biden and law enforcement personnel from across the country are among those expected to attend Wednesday’s noontime service at Briggs Field. Only law enforcement and members of the MIT community may attend, according to the school, which expects about 10,000 attendees. MIT canceled classes for the day.

Collier, 26, was shot multiple times in his vehicle last Thursday night, allegedly by the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.

“We grieve with his family, his many friends and his fellow MIT Police officers,” MIT president Rafaek Reif wrote in an e-mail to the school community. “Many at MIT knew and loved Officer Sean Collier; for those who didn’t, he was someone we could all wish to have had the opportunity to know.”

The Collier family requested that donations be made in Sean’s memory to the Jimmy Fund. His sister, Jennifer Lemmerman, said that Sean was inspired after listening to the WEEI Jimmy Fund Radio-Telethon a number of years ago and later signed up to make regular automatic donations.

“They just told stories of these children that were fighting for their lives and their families, and Sean was just so impacted by that,” Lemmerman said during an appearance on NBC’s “Today” show. “He went home and made a donation. He’s just this high school kid, he had no money, but he made a small donation, what he could do.

“Then he set up a recurring payment from his own account to make regular donations to the Jimmy Fund, and he did that until the day he died. So, we wanted to carry that on for him.”

MIT also plans to create a Sean A. Collier Memorial Fund to support a Collier Medal that will be awarded to individuals who demonstrate Collier’s values.